Finding newsletter isn’t an easy task
Two years of watching mutual funds get ripped by the market has many investors looking for help. But choosing from among dozens of fund newsletters can be almost as difficult...
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Bond funds are about to show their dark side
Many of the investors who rushed into bond funds as stocks stalled over the last two years could be in for an unpleasant surprise soon. The price of their funds...
There’s no need to worry about your paperwork
The morning after what has now become known as the "Attack on America," a television correspondent was talking about the scene, about how amid the ash and rubble there was...
PAPER WORK
My family's 15-year-old cat, Yummy, spit up a hair ball all over some unfiled paperwork in the basement, soiling some paid bills and other papers that were displaced from filing...
DON’T BE HASTY
During my recent vacation, I kept seeing a television commercial about a guy who is worried about baldness who keeps seeing things that remind him that he may have this...
NO GUARANTEES ON GOOF-PROOF TRANSACTIONS
Judy K. from Boca Raton did her research, picked her funds, and mailed the forms to open an individual retirement account. Just over a week later, she learned that half...
IT’S MORE THAN WHAT’S UPFRONT THAT COUNTS
`Dear Investor: You have made a wise choice by electing to focus on 100 percent no-load mutual funds in making your mutual fund investment selections." So begins the investment guide...
RECONSTRUCT YOUR RECORDS TO AVOID IRS SCRUTINY
Shortly after Alan Clark was born, his father bought him some shares in The Dreyfus Fund. The elder Clark put the investment on auto-pilot, merely reinvesting dividends and capital gains....
HERE’S WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR FUNDS
Albert Einstein once noted that he didn't think about the future because "it comes soon enough." Einstein probably never bought a mutual fund. Fund buyers know that when it comes...
SORTING THE REAL WINNERS FROM THE IMPOSTORS
There are a lot of kids' games in which four things look alike, but one or two are subtly different. The challenge is to weed out the impostors. So it...